Nine comedies of Aristophanes appeared in 1498.
Of these the most popular are comedies and serio-comic national dramas.
On the other hand it is hardly likely that all his comedies (which greatly exceeded in number the extant twenty) were produced during the last twenty years of his life.
Moreover, southern Italy and Sicily afforded many opportunities for witnessing representations of Greek comedies and tragedies.
He is even credited, on fairly probable testimony, with a share at least in the composition of several comedies.
